{"id":5485,"date":"2016-12-14T09:03:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/cost-could-hit-50-million-to-replace-burned-bethel-schools\/"},"modified":"2016-12-14T09:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:03:21","slug":"cost-could-hit-50-million-to-replace-burned-bethel-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/cost-could-hit-50-million-to-replace-burned-bethel-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost could hit $50 million to replace burned Bethel schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BETHEL \u2014 <\/strong>Reconstruction costs could reach $50 million for two Bethel schools that burned in a November 2015 fire.<\/p>\n<p>KYUK-AM reported the ECI Alaska Architecture firm estimated the cost at between $42 million and $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>School superintendent Dan Walker told the Lower Kuskokwim School Board at a December meeting that insurers estimate repairs will cost about $27 million.<\/p>\n<p>Walker said the higher estimate takes into account upgrade and code requirements for buildings that were still standing after the fire.<\/p>\n<p>He said he hopes API Insurance Services responds to the architects\u2019 findings by late January.<\/p>\n<p>Actual costs are unclear until contractors start bidding on the project.<\/p>\n<p>The fire burned for 12 hours at the Yup\u2019ik immersion school and Kuskokwim Learning Academy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear whether a cause has been determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BETHEL \u2014 Reconstruction costs could reach $50 million for two Bethel schools that burned in a November 2015 fire. KYUK-AM reported the ECI Alaska Architecture firm estimated the cost at between $42 million and $50 million. School superintendent Dan Walker told the Lower Kuskokwim School Board at a December meeting that insurers estimate repairs will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}